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person_profile-Patric Knowles

Patric Knowles Died at age: 84

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Nov 11, 1911

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Dec 23, 1995

Biography of

Patric Knowles

    Reginald Lawrence Knowles (11 November 1911 – 23 December 1995) was an English film actor who renamed himself Patric Knowles, a name which reflects his Irish descent. He appeared in films of the 1930s through the 1970s. He made his film debut in 1933, and played either first or second film leads throughout his career.

    In his first American film, Give Me Your Heart (1936), released in Great Britain as Sweet Aloes, Knowles was cast as a titled Englishman of means.

    While making The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) at Lone Pine, California, he befriended Errol Flynn, whose acquaintance he had made when both were under contract to Warner Bros. in England. Since that film, in which Knowles played the part of Capt. Perry Vickers, the brother of Flynn's Maj. Geoffrey Vickers, he was cast more frequently as straitlaced characters alongside Flynn's flamboyant ones, notably as Will Scarlet in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Both actors starred as well in Four's A Crowd, also in 1938.

    More than two decades after Flynn's death, biographer Charles Higham sullied Flynn's memory by accusing him of having been a fascist sympathizer and Nazi spy. Knowles, who had served in World War II as a flying instructor in the RCAF, came to Flynn's defense, writing Rebuttal for a Friend as an epilogue to Tony Thomas' Errol Flynn: The Spy Who Never Was (Citadel Press, 1990) ISBN 080651180X.

    Knowles was a freelance film actor from 1939 until his last film appearance in 1973. In the 1940s, he was known for playing protagonists in a number of horror films, including The Wolf Man (1941) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943).

    Knowles was also cast as comic foils in a number of comedies such as Abbott and Costello's Who Done It? (1942) and Hit The Ice (1943). He also appeared opposite Jack Kelly in a 1957 episode of the television series Maverick called "The Wrecker", which was based on a Robert Louis Stevenson adventure and co-starred James Garner.

    Knowles was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame and wrote a novel called Even Steven (Vantage Press, 1960) ASIN B0006RMC2G. He was cremated. His ashes were either given to a friend or family.

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Filmography of

Patric Knowles

Found 72 Movies in total

Arnold

Douglas Whitehead ( Actor )

... 1973

Terror in the Wax Museum

Mr. Southcott ( Actor )

... 1973

The Man

South African Consul ( Actor )

... 1972

Chisum

Henry Tunstall ( Actor )

... 1970

The D.A.: Murder One

Charles Lloyd ( Actor )

... 1969

In Enemy Country

General Lloyd-Griffis ( Actor )

... 1968

The Devil's Brigade

Adm. Lord Mountbatten ( Actor )

... 1968

The Way West

Captain Grant ( Actor )

... 1967

... 1962

Auntie Mame

Lindsay Woolsey ( Actor )

... 1958

From the Earth to the Moon

Josef Cartier ( Actor )

... 1958

Band of Angels

Charles de Marigny ( Actor )

... 1957

No Man's Woman

Wayne Vincent ( Actor )

... 1955

The Thief

Philippe Voyson ( Actor )

... 1955

Khyber Patrol

George Kennely ( Actor )

... 1954

World for Ransom

Julian March ( Actor )

... 1954

Flame of Calcutta

Capt. Keith Lambert ( Actor )

... 1953

Jamaica Run

William Montague ( Actor )

... 1953

Tarzan's Savage Fury

Edwards, English Traitor ( Actor )

... 1952

Mutiny

Capt. Ben Waldridge ( Actor )

... 1952

Quebec

Charles Douglas ( Actor )

... 1951

Three Came Home

Harry Keith ( Actor )

... 1950

The Big Steal

Jim Fiske ( Actor )

... 1949

Isn't It Romantic?

Richard Brannon ( Actor )

... 1948

Dream Girl

Jim Lucas ( Actor )

... 1948

Variety Girl

Patric Knowles ( Actor )

... 1947

Ivy

Roger Gretorex ( Actor )

... 1947

Monsieur Beaucaire

Duc le Chandre ( Actor )

... 1946

Of Human Bondage

Harry Griffiths ( Actor )

... 1946

The Bride Wore Boots

Lance Gale ( Actor )

... 1946

O.S.S.

Cmdr. Brady ( Actor )

... 1946

Masquerade in Mexico

Thomas Grant ( Actor )

... 1945

Kitty

Brett Harwood Earl of Carstairs ( Actor )

... 1945

This Is the Life

Maj. Hilary Jarret ( Actor )

... 1944

Pardon My Rhythm

Anthony "Tony" Page ( Actor )

... 1944

Chip Off the Old Block

Commander Judd Corrigan ( Actor )

... 1944

Crazy House

Edmund 'Mac' MacLean ( Actor )

... 1943

All by Myself

Dr. Bill Perry ( Actor )

... 1943

Hit the Ice

Dr. William 'Bill' Burns ( Actor )

... 1943

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Dr. Frank Mannering ( Actor )

... 1943

Forever and a Day

Trimble-Pomfret Son ( Actor )

... 1943

Who Done It?

Jim Turner ( Actor )

... 1942

Sin Town

Wade Crowell ( Actor )

... 1942

Lady in a Jam

Doctor Enright ( Actor )

... 1942

The Mystery of Marie Roget

Dr. Paul Dupin ( Actor )

... 1942

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

Private Detective Jerry Church ( Actor )

... 1942

The Wolf Man

Frank Andrews ( Actor )

... 1941

How Green Was My Valley

Ivor Morgan ( Actor )

... 1941

Anne of Windy Poplars

Gilbert Blythe ( Actor )

... 1940

Women in War

Lt. Larry Hall ( Actor )

... 1940

A Bill of Divorcement

John Storm ( Actor )

... 1940

Married and in Love

Paul Wilding ( Actor )

... 1940

Another Thin Man

Dudley Horn ( Actor )

... 1939

The Spellbinder

Tom Dixon ( Actor )

... 1939

Five Came Back

Judson Ellis ( Actor )

... 1939

Beauty for the Asking

Denny Williams ( Actor )

... 1939

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Capt. Condon ( Actor )

... 1939

Heart of the North

Jim Montgomery ( Actor )

... 1938

Storm Over Bengal

Captain Jeffrey Allison ( Actor )

... 1938

The Sisters

Norman French ( Actor )

... 1938

Four's a Crowd

Patterson 'Pat' Buckley ( Actor )

... 1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Will Scarlett ( Actor )

... 1938

The Patient in Room 18

Lance O'Leary ( Actor )

... 1938

Expensive Husbands

Prince Rupert Heinrich Franz Von Rentzau ( Actor )

... 1937

It's Love I'm After

Henry Grant Jr. ( Actor )

... 1937

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Captain Perry Vickers ( Actor )

... 1936

Give Me Your Heart

Robert 'Bob' Melford ( Actor )

... 1936

Crown v. Stevens

Chris Jensen ( Actor )

... 1936

The Guv'nor

Paul ( Actor )

... 1935

Abdul the Damned

Omar - Hilmi's Attache ( Actor )

... 1935

Honours Easy

Harry Markham ( Actor )

... 1935

The Student's Romance

Max Brandt ( Actor )

... 1935